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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/191",
  "legislation_title": "Optical Charges and Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
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  "heading": "Voucher Letter Codes and Face Values — Supply and Replacement",
  "text": "1\n2\n3\nType of optical appliance\nLetter Code\nFace value of voucher\n1 Glasses with single vision lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of not more than 2 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres and not more than 4 dioptres.\nA\n£27·20\n2 Glasses with single vision lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 4 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres.\nB\n£41·30\n3 Glasses with single vision lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 20 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;\n(b) with a spherical power of not more than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 4 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres;\n(c) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 4 dioptres.\nC\n£56·30\n4 Glasses with single vision lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 20 dioptres with any cylindrical power;\n(b) of a spherical power of not more than 20 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres.\nD\n£110·60\n5 Glasses with bifocal lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptropes with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of not more than 2 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres and not more than 4 dioptres.\nE\n£46·90\n6 Glasses with bifocal lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 4 dioptres.\nF\n£59·70\n7 Glasses with bifocal lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 14 diopres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;\n(b) of a spherical power of not more than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 4 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres;\n(c) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 4 dioptres.\nG\n£71·90\n8 Glasses with prism-controlled bifocal lenses of any power or with bifocal lenses—\n(a) of a spherical power of more than 14 dioptres with any cylindrical power;\n(b) of a spherical power of not more than 14 diopres with a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres.\nH\n£121·60\n9 Glasses not falling within any of paragraphs 1 to 8 for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight by an HSS trust.\nI\n£121·60\n10 Contact lenses for which a prescription is given in consequence of a testing of sight by an HSS trust.\nJ\n£39·80 (per lens)",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 in operation at 1.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)"
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